210 State Horticultural Society. 



eat; mixed with sweet apples, or any kind for that matter, and sweet- 

 ened to taste, they make the best pie on earth. 



For a market cherry I would place the English Morello at the top 

 of the list. True it went to wholesale destruction last winter, but are 

 we going to quit planting all the kinds of fruit that were injured by 

 that outlandish performance the weather clerk put on the program 

 last winter ? I think we will discharge him and the next one may take 

 due notice and govern himself accordingly. Last winter has been 

 called by some a test winter, but I don't understand it so. It is not to 

 be expected that so many adverse circumstances and conditions will get 

 up another such a combination in the next century. 



The next best and very best for home and near-by market is Early 

 Richmond. It must be used soon after picking. A neighbor told me 

 that in canning they had mixed them with one-half strawberries to the 

 great improvement of both, the combination keeping well when they had 

 had trouble in keeping strawberries ; that it gives a body and substance 

 to that watery fruit that makes it much better. A few years ago I 

 could not sell Early Richmond in my market. JSTothing would do but 

 English Morello. Yet to-day people have learned that the Early Rieli- 

 mond is much the better cherry and the demand has increased beyond 

 the supply. 



Montmorency Ordinaire, Suda Hardy and Ostheimer have gone 

 to the happy hunting grounds along with English Morello and some 

 semi-sweets. True they are not all dead, but all more or less damaged, 

 being late they growed too late and were not matured to withstand the 

 shock. Dyehouse wintered w^ell and bore a small crop; it does not 

 bear as young as Early Richmond, may dcr better later. I can see very 

 little difference in fruit, though the trees grow more stocky. Wragg 

 has stood the weather finely; it is small, sour, bitter and puckery, ' even 

 sugar fails to make it eatable; not adapted to my situation and I shall 

 grub it out. It is the true Wragg, as I got it from the Wragg nursery. 



However, the best variety that has ever come under my observation 

 in this country is one tree that stands in the yard of S. Chamberlain 

 in the city of Stanberry, Mo. For years it has yielded its full cro]3s of 

 large cherries, pleasing to the eye and good to the taste, milder yet 



